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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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Three Billy Goats Gruff E book Single User (PC) Three Billy Goats Gruff E book with speech Single User (PC) Three Billy Goats Gruff Goat Facts Single User (PC) |
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| Term 2 Text: Once There Were Giants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Once, to the baby in the house, the grown ups were giants. As the baby grew she gradually became a giant herself. This delightful book has a rhythmic text describing events that children can identify with. Author: Martin Waddell Illustrator: Penny Dale Walker Books ISBN 0-7445-7836-1 Click here to add book to shopping basket |
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| Text: Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This simple explanation is a useful book for introducing pupils to a non-fiction text. It contains a contents and index page and labelled diagrams. Change can be used as a model in the whole class work on how to write labels,diagrams and extended captions. See the weekly plan on how this process may be developed throughout a week. Heinemann ISBN: 0-435-09459-9 Click here to add book to shopping basket Click here to add book to shopping basket (Big Book) |
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| Term 2 Text: Bravest Ever Bear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This amusing book contains a number of stories, which consist of little more than "Once upon a time", a character and "The End"! So bear decides to write his own story. A wonderful book for demonstrating the elements needed in a narrative to make it an effective story. Author: Allan Ahlberg Illustrator: Paul Howard Walker Books Ltd ISBN: 0-7445-6181-7 Click here to add book to shopping basket |
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| The Three Billy Goats Gruff Resource CD Illustrated by Arthur Burns Published by Literacy Matters Ltd Resource CD This versatile CD allows teachers to print pictures and text to create a class display, a big book and class book. Differentiated individual books provide activities for groups and individuals for both reading and writing. Other "print your own" resources include paragraph frames, a word folder, a bank of illustrated words as well as play headings and script. click here to order the CD |
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| Term 2 Text: Cinderella | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Unit 6, Developing Early Writing (NLS) You can use any traditional version of Cinderella as the starting point for the work in this unit. You can also find some useful Cinderella pictures in week 12 of the Early Literacy Support programme (ELS) www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/publications/ |
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| Term 2 Text: The Royal Dinner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The chef has a problem – the royal family all want something different for their dinner. This rhyming story provides a neat solution for the problem and can be used as a starting point for writing instructions. Author: Brenda Parkes Illustrator: John Burge Available from Kingscourt/McGraw-Hill ISBN: 0732722950 Click here to add book to shopping basket Click here to add book to shopping basket (Big Book) |
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| Term 2 Text: The Princess and the Pea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This story by Hans Christian Andersen is used to focus on the beginning, middle and end of a traditional story. A version of the story, in a big book format, can be found in an Focus English anthology for Year 1: Class Favourites Anthology Publisher: Rigby ISBN 0-433-01042-8 Click here to add book to shopping basket Click here to add book to shopping basket (Focus Big Book) |
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| Term 2 Text: Whose Baby? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This big book non-fiction text has the unusual feature of split pages, so that children can match baby animals to their parents. Facts about the animals are presented in clear print, with simple non-fiction features, such as headings and bullet points, modelled. Author: Jason Amber ISBN: 0-433-03723-7 Publisher: Rigby (Red Giant) Click here to add book to shopping basket Click here to add book to shopping basket (Big Book) |
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| Term 2 Text: The Selfish Crocodile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The selfish crocodile tells all the animals to stay away from his river- that is until he has a problem. This delightful book can be used to focus on the words used to add detail about characters' appearance and behaviour. Written by, Faustin Charlse and Michael Terry Published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks ISBN. 0-7475-4193-0 Click here to add book to shopping basket |
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| Term 2 Text: Goat Facts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Goat Facts in The Three Billy Goats Gruff "print your own" CD Published by Literacy Matters Ltd 2004 This CD contains three different text types: the traditional tale, Goats Facts and a play script, which you can print for use within the classroom. There are numerous resources for pupils to use, such as paragraph frames, own books, word folder and word bank. You can print display materials, pictures for use in drama, as well as lesson plans for Reception, Y1, Y2 & Y3. If this wasn't enough there are three E-books included on the CD! These can be used on computers or with an interactive whiteboard. The traditional tale has sound for the characters' speech. There is an editable version so that you can model writing or changing existing text. 'Goats Facts' can be used to teach the features of non-chronological report and non-fiction texts. click here to order the CD Click here to order Goat Facts eBook |
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| Term 2 Text: The Orchard Book of Funny Poems | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This anthology includes poems about food, school, animals and friends by a range of poets who include Michael Rosen, Roger McGough, Lewis Carrol and William Makepeace Thackeray. Author: Vivian French Compiled by Wendy Cope Illustrated by Amanda Vesey Orchard Books ISBN: 1-84121-691-7 Click here to add book to shopping basket Click here to add book to shopping basket (Big Book) |
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